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There is common Mexican informal expression "güey/buey" (written as "wey" in text).
Examples:
According to the Academia Mexicana de la Lengua (Mexican Academy of Language), güey is a deformation of "buey" (from Lat. bos, bovis). However, a common trend in Mexican Spanish is for simple words to become very complex terms that change meaning depending on context. Güey may mean stupid, friend, enemy, asshole, deranged, courageous, and a host of terms that are inconsistent most of the time. It can be used as derogatory or superlative.
But it's origin could also be the Náhuatl word "uey", or "huey"*
In Mexican border culture, "guey" is the common term for a jackass, in the familiar form, it shows trust between two men to be able to say "What's up asshole?" It is also yet less often used as a derogatory term.
Here in the Rio Grande Valley, depending on the person doing the name calling can earn you anything from a brutal beat down to a slug in the mug, literally. It is pronounced "way" as in which way. Using crude derogatory terms here is how we enforce "rank" and a display of power in front of peers.
To let it get to you in front of others is to show weakness and will usually earn you more of the same or wain of salt and reorse. To accept it with grain of salt return the favor quickly with a little extra spice can ean you respect instead of scorn.
